All Addictions Thrive Inside Us, Not Outside

See yesterday's post before reading this. The two go together. The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure goes on to point out that all addictions are within us. Even though the problems that I was having, as explained in the last post, were largely beyond my control, my reaction to them was entirely within me.

"Before reading this, it may have seemed to you that the causes of dependency were actually outside of yourself, but that is not the case. It's easy to see that Cause 1 (Chemical imbalance) and Cause 3 (Beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true) exist within you. In the case of Cause 2 (Unresolved events from the past), those past events live only in your mind, even though you may be faced with the results of those events every day. In Case 4 (Inability to cope with current conditions), while the conditions are outside of you, your inability to cope with them lies within you."